Is this what they they saw in the sky back then?

each picture was taken from the ground of earth

Is this what was witnessed in the sky back then when they made this infamous 1561 depiction??? Atlanteans are often personally blamed for their superiour tech yet this was past their time and the theory are tartarians around this era yet little is known from their alleged extinction

edit: there must be a way

Thought experiment. The region during this time was prone to outbreaks of ergot poisoning, which can cause hallucinations, mania, and psychosis. How would we determine which of these two hypothesis are correct:

1. An ergot contamination of rye bread in the market caused a localized mass hallucination event that was prone to religious stressors. We have no evidence of this contamination (health records, logistics reports, etc), but we do have evidence that ergot exists, ergot poisoning exists, and what ergot poisoning does to people.
2. A celestial battle took place. We have no evidence of this celestial battle (recovered debris, radiation readings, reports of contact with crash survivors, etc).

>At first there appeared in the middle of the sun two blood-red semi-circular arcs, just like the moon in its last quarter. And in the sun, above and below and on both sides, the color was blood, there stood a round ball of partly dull, partly black ferrous color. Likewise there stood on both sides and as a torus about the sun such blood-red ones and other balls in large number, about three in a line and four in a square, also some alone. In between these globes there were visible a few blood-red crosses, between which there were blood-red strips, becoming thicker to the rear and in the front malleable like the rods of reed-grass, which were intermingled, among them two big rods, one on the right, the other to the left, and within the small and big rods there were three, also four and more globes.